At first I thought I was crazy, but I woke up today and it happened again. Today, and Yesterday My RP4 was a different IP than the one I went to bed with. I have a pretty bare bones Hassio setup, with only one integration so far, the RP4 is connected via ethernet.
Hey thanks for the quick reply. To be clear that is not the same thing as setting a static IP, yes? I am looking into that right now and it looks like there is something in my documentation for my router called âDHCP reservationâ, does that sound right?
You have two ways of setting a âfixedâ ip address, both can be considered âstaticâ
You can do it on the particular device
Or you can do it from your router
The router method is preferred by âmostâ network specialists as then the management is all done from one place.
You can run into issues with this with some routers, I have been âgivenâ modem/routers by ISPâs that canât set IP adresses OR have only 25 Slots for addresses (They are now either in the bin or sold on ebay)
I have a Draytek Vigor2762ac which can reserve 300 (on a class C network, I know - but it also covers subnets and vpn instances)
Thanks thatâs really cool. Can you tell from this doc what page I should be looking at? The DHCP reservation thing, was from an old router, I checked and this is actually the router I have.
I found something called static NAT but that doesnât seem to be quite the same
thinghttps://www.verizon.com/supportresources/content/dam/verizon/support/consumer/documents/fqgrouter-userguide.pdf
According to the document link you gave me it talks about this on page 174
A DHCP server (this is the bit we are talking about here) can either be on your modem or on a router (usually these are combined into the one box these days)
It will Issue addresses in a given range (I think mine was set in 2 to 40 (1 was the hub itself) ) so (such being the case) Iâd assign addresses beyond 40.
I tend to assign addresses by use so Infrastucture goes into 240âs, servers into 230âs, TVâs into 220âs etc. Suit yourself though, whatever works for you
I went to add a new static connection, put in an IP, and - I assumed - that I had to give it the same name (Homeassistant), and the MAC address of the RP4, but itâs saying the name and the MAC address âalready exists in Wireless Broadband Routerâs databaseâ .
If I edit the RP4 under the connections tab, the only option I see is a checkbox next to the RP4 with âstatic lease typeâ that I can check and then hit apply.
There are various ways of tackling this depending upon the manufacturer.
Given what youâve said, Iâd assume you could now go back in, select the record you have created, edit it, to give a different address (say 222 or whatever you find best) then save the record back.
Iâm not certain however, I usually just play with the settings till I get what I want.
You may not want to do that in case it screws something up and you canât revert.
Depends how confident you are.
If it works now for you, you may just want to walk away with a win.